E/CN.4/2002/94 page 16 an Ethiopian migrant who was reported to have a legal residence in Bahrain. Ms. Yeshiworq Desta Zewdie was said to have been sentenced to death for the murder of her employer. According to information received, she had been enslaved by her employer, had been subjected to physical and psychological abuse and had received no wages for a period of two years. It was held that the alleged abuse suffered by the migrant had not been taken into account during the trial which concluded with her being sentenced to death. 58. By a letter dated 22 January 2001, the Government of Bahrain informed the Special Rapporteur that Yeshiworq Desta Zewdie had been convicted of intentional and premeditated murder in a trial at which a variety of evidence was produced against her, including a letter in which she was said to have set out her intention of murdering her employer. The Government of Bahrain also informed the Special Rapporteur that Yeshiworq Desta Zewdie’s lawyer had lodged an appeal against the court’s decision on 25 December 2000. It enumerated the remedies still available to her lawyer and noted that all executions must ultimately be approved by the Amir of Bahrain. Spain 59. On 1 November 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal to the Government of Spain concerning information received on two infants, aged 13 and 18 months, whose presumed mothers, two Nigerian women, had allegedly been detained and deported because of their illegal status, while the infants were reported to have remained in Spain. It was said that the lawyers for the two women had informed the examining magistrate of the existence of their alleged children and that they had been unable to appeal against the final expulsion order because it had been served on them on the very day of the expulsion. It was also reported that the infants had been kept by persons known to the presumed mothers. United States of America 60. On 6 June 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal together with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions concerning the case of Gerardo Valdez Maltos, a Mexican national who had been sentenced to death and whose execution was scheduled for 19 June 2001. It was reported that Gerardo Valdez was suffering from severe mental problems and had not been informed of his right to communicate with his consulate. 61. On 20 September 2001 the Government of the United States of America stated that the Oklahoma Court of Appeals had granted an indefinite stay of execution. 62. On 4 July 2001, the Special Rapporteur sent a joint urgent appeal together with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the reported detention of an eight-year-old minor of Nigerian origin, who had arrived unaccompanied at John F. Kennedy international airport and presented false documents. She was said to have been held in the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) for over a year.